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Yard Sales are a great place to start your collection... just be cautious, if it looks really scratched up you might want to pass on playing it. As there can be damage done to your needle.

Indie shops are a great place to start, IF you have one near you...

A lot of bands are releasing new albums on vinyl, so, you can pick the vinyl up directly from them (it also normally means the band gets a higher cut of the profit).

I've also used Amazon to help find some good new or recent records... Ok Computer for around $20, is not a bad deal.

You can occasionally get 180 gram vinyls... which are made thicker than a standard record, while there's no real sound benefit, they will hold up a lot better in shipping.

Another thing to watch for, is that with some newer re-issues they will cram more music than the vinyl can handle... and the sound quality suffers.

A friend of mine picked up the Bends by Radiohead, which was pressed onto a single record, and the sound suffers... however, the copy of 'Ok Computer' I have was pressed as a double album and the sound is fantastic. Anything over around 22 minutes a side the quality will degrade.

Amazon's pretty good as well... they've got the essentials as well as newer releases.

They're my go-to for newer stuff, but older stuff is yard sale fodder... something like Harvest, or Rumours, I'll wait until the yard sale.